Kubernetes and software containers are exceptions to this rule. Google was an early innovator for Linux-based software containers and much of the work that was done to foster Linux containers (LXC) in ...

In today’s highly competitive technical landscape, testing and development must be performed rapidly yet securely to meet growing consumer demands. When moving software from one computing environment ...

Whether you have considered trying to secure an application by putting it into a “sandbox” or wondered how a Software as a Service (SaaS) provider keeps your application and data isolated from other ...

As government IT leaders modernize and expand the way their agencies use applications for mission critical services, software container technology can help bring agility to a continuously growing ...

Software container adoption is hot as users increase their deployments of the technology for perceived advantages that include squeezing more performance out of their data center resources and ...

Software is packaged. We used to think of software packages as the cardboard boxes that housed our DVD-ROM drives, but that time has long passed. Today (and actually, developers have had these ...

Shipping containers revolutionized the way freight is moved around the world. By making it possible to pack all manner of cargo in a uniform way, shipping companies save money and streamline the ...

You can’t go to a developer conference today and not hear about software containers: Docker, Kubernetes, Mesos and a bunch of other names with a nautical ring to them.[/tc_dropcap] Microsoft, Google, ...

In the world of software application development, container technology is big news. But what is it, why is it a useful approach and is it safe? In straightforward terms, a container is a specific ...

Two years ago, the CoreOS distribution of Linux was created by two guys literally working out of a garage who wanted to make software containers the key feature, rather than an add-on, to a Linux ...